You could start baking it and turn it into quicklime
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This video was not planned for public, but it was yesterday that our kids looked like this. Enjoy Tone, next episode.
i always thought this is what he wants to do all day but now working in the shop. This was his weekendjob last weekend. We will see.
Thanks Tone
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Dad and I looked at a 1950 Chevrolet DeLuxe 4 door sedan yesterday. Guy wanted 500 dollars. Turns out he knows my Mom’s side of the family so he held the car for Dad to get the money. Looks like it has a 216 6 cylinder OHV, three on the tree.
It’s a rotten mess on the inside but the exterior is mostly there. I hope the frame is good. Dad wanted it because it’s as old as he is and he used to have a 1956 Belair as a teenager. I forgot to take pictures, I was busy talking to the guy. Car is still a 6 volt Positive Ground system, the previous owner had it starting to run but then a lot of smoke started coming out of the dash so he quit working on it fearing wiring issues. The glass is all there and that’s a big bonus.
I can tell Dad is already emotionally invested in the car because of its age and I think he’s been looking for something to occupy his time.
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Giorgio, I started digging this canal with a heavy heart, because I know that there will be a lot of work, first excavation, then crushing rocks, filling the canal and leveling the surface.
The Lord Creator has indeed blessed us with a beautiful land, but the cultivation is quite demanding.
The test gasifier that Kristjan tested was damaged during operation after Kristjan’s last post, but it successfully passed the operation with torrefied wood with praise. This unit only had air preheating with hot gases, well, I think it would work well with moist charcoal or moist air.
If we know and it is a fact that the processes in the gasifier take place at 900-1000°C, we have to bring and heat 3 kg of air to this temperature to convert 1 kg of charcoal, which represents a lot of energy (0.66 kWh), we cannot completely replace this with preheating, maybe only 0.4 kWh, if we add to this the energy for evaporating 1 kg of water (0.7 kWh), we see that the total energy consumption of 1.1 kWh for such preparation of moist and preheated air is almost 14% of the energy of the charcoal. What does this mean for the quality of the gas and the work produced by the engine?
If I were to make my own conclusions, the difference, these 14%, should represent a “poorer” gas, and on the engine shaft, this results in a doubled difference - 28%.
There is a difference, however, in the simplicity of the system, reliability, etc., perhaps the complexity of manufacturing, etc.
Anyway, it is good to talk about gasifiers and understand the technical details, so it is easier to decide what kind of gasifier to build, where it makes sense to improve something and why.
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Our pollens season here PNW westside is very long from mid-late March thru all of April, May and June.
First the various trees pollens. Now grasses pollens:
(Well, hell . . . my newly taken wild grasses pictures still will not load.)
Next will come weeds pollens.
This has made it very difficult late-in-the-game to select; and get placed for another Foreign Exchange Student for the next school year.
Our February pick rejected us for bad weather. Too wet. Too cold. Too much like her home Poland.
Our German April pick ended up also rejecting us for living not in a village, town or a city. I KNOW many here European; who do live true-Rural also. Bad luck, eh? Not really. By then, recognizable failures patterns. But by then late, late May the remaining choices: 50% were allergic to either dogs, cats, dusts or pollens. We have all of these.
Finally a Spanish gal not allergic who wants to be here with us. With reasonable, common-folk parents, who want their girl to be safe, and supported. Rural, old ethics, kept safe. Hurrah!
S.U.
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I’m with you Jan-Ola. Technically it’s the beginning of summer, but I never thought it should be that way. The longest day of the year should be mid-summer with shorter days leading up to it and away. That way the beginning of summer could be celebrated around the beginning of May and everyone could look forward to the still lengthening days and warmer temperatures. Having summer begin on the longest day is kind of a let down as it signifies that the days are starting to get shorter. Here in the southern hemisphere, this solstice is uplifting as it indicates the sun is beginning its upward journey into the sky. My mood is finally changing for the better. 
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How long are the logs on the cart, JO?
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Please don’t mention. Let us live in our bubble, just a little while longer 
I make them 4,20 or 14ft, because that’s what my mill excepts. I can do 15ft, but it requires perfection in positioning.
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Cindy looks very cute, even more cute with the flower crown!
Do you call her Cynthia when she’s making mischief? 
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Her “cuteness” saves her from a lot of scoldings when she misbehaves 
By the way, her full name is “Cinderella” (from the breeder), we have never called her that 
“byracka” is the Swedish insult i call here sometimes…
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While normal people stand around the midsummer poles pretending they are interested in listening to unlubed fiddeling, I decided to go gather a batch of chunking material. Easy catch, since they resently knocked down the birch young growth under the power lines. No engines used (except the woodburner) - just Kristijan’s vejnic knife. Only problem was shorts and hundereds of horseflies.
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It looks like you just had to recruit some of those folks and you could of had much larger poles. 
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Happy Fathers Day to any, and all, appropriate.
I am being surprised/secretly taken to The Red Lobster restaurant late this afternoon by my four girls in my life.
My Wife wants lobster.
Steve Unruh
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Hey Steve . A happy father’s day to you also.
I had a good surprise with all the crayfish I could eat for fathers day
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Two 100 hundred pounder tanks, 100 gallons gasoline, and 50 gallons of fuel oil.
The second picture is 150 gallons of gasoline.
I store 100 to 200 gallons of gasoline on pallets, placed 50 to 100 feet apart. I try to keep the pallets far enough apart so fire won’t take everything at once. I do the same with tires too.
Sorry fellas, I haven’t been able to do much wood chunking, or gas producer related activities. I have been too occupied building storage for the gasoline.
I have been fixated on 366 or 454 tall deck engines, or the IH gas engines.
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